You didn’t think The Wolverine would miss out on Secret Wars?
The beloved X-Man is still dead but a fan-favorite version of him returns for a highly anticipated tie-in series.
“Old Man Logan” is back in his own Warzone book.
Brian Michael Bendis and Andrea Sorrentino revisit the future world of Old Man Logan, based on the storyline by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. The X-Man was nearly the last hero standing in a dark world conquered by super villains. In the original story the former Wolverine teamed up with a blind Hawkeye to find his daughter.
Bendis revisits this version of the X-Man and explained how he fits in this new reality.
“This is Wolverine as Clint Eastwood in ‘Unforgiven,’” Bendis told Marvel.com.
“This is a Wolverine on a desperate road to redemption. But unlike most people in Secret Wars he will have a sense that things aren’t the way they should [be], not like Wolverine and House of M, but Old Man Logan will venture out of his section of Battleworld and into others. On a quest. And he will be one of the characters most affected by the outcome of this event.”
How do the events of Warzone books affect the main Secret Wars arc by and the all-new, all-different Marvel Universe coming this Fall?
Bendis is not blatant but gives us a something to think about when it comes to the lost X-Man.
“I’m not sure what I can say about that at this point. I’ve been trying real hard not to accidentally put a clue out there that lets three percent of the people in on something about “Secret Wars.” Then those people post it and everybody reads it, and by reading they think they’ve guessed things, which they have not guessed. They just read someone else’s guess. I don’t want to be part of that — but “Old Man Logan’s” place and importance in “Secret Wars” is very unique and the effects will be felt long after the event,” Bendis told Comic Book Resources.
“I’m not saying this lightly and I’m not trying to give anything away, but I think what people are most excited about with “Secret Wars” is that they know something big is happening and something even bigger is coming out the other side. A lot of these stories are going to have something that pops out the other side. “Old Man Logan” absolutely, 100 percent has a couple of things that will pop into the Marvel Universe, whatever shape it takes, after “Secret Wars” is done. In fact, every single one of the stories I’m doing during “Secret Wars” has a big piece that is coming forward into the new Marvel Universe, and “Old Man Logan” is right there at the forefront of that.”
Old Man Logan is the first of several versions of Wolverine you will see in Secret War Warzones. Watch for House of M, Age of Apocalypse and X-Men of the early 90’s.
Bendis’s final X-book Uncanny X-Men #600 arrives after Secret Wars. The veteran writer will remain a Marvel exclusive but no official projects have been announced yet.
By Editor